Alisa Miller

At a Glance
Who: Alisa Miller
Where: Monterey, California
When: February 2008
What: Lack of international news
Why: replaced with celebrity gossip

The news has been replaced by celebrity gossip. Alisa Miller reports the ‘News About the News’ in Monterey, California during February 2008. Alisa Miller is the President and CEO of the Public Radio International and oversees 400 hours of programming a week. She points out in her speech that the news pays more attention to Anna Nicole’s Death rather than the dismantling of bombs in North Korea or the flooding in Indonesia. The local news in 2007 only dedicated 12 percent to international news.
Miller says “News networks have reduced the number of foreign bureaus by half,” and “there are no network news bureaus in all of Africa, India or South America, places that are home to more then two billion people.” The news is skewed it is cheaper to cover celebrity gossip then international business.